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“Search for my tongue”, “Unrelated Incidents” and “Half-Caste”
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Poems from Other Cultures: Comparison The 3 poems "search for my tongue", "Unrelated Incidents" and "Half-Caste" are all about language or accents. "Search for my Tongue" is about what it is like to live in a foreign country, away from home, and the cultures you are used to living in. The poet is talking about that she has 'lost' her Mother tongue (Gujerati) due to the foreign languages she has to use everyday. The poet treats the word 'tongue' literally in this poem "It grows back, a stump of a shoot grows longer, grows moist, grows strong veins, it ties the other tongue in knots, the bud opens, the bud opens in my mouth, it pushes the other tongue aside." At the end of the poem the poet realsies that she can never lose her mother tongue (see quote above). What makes this poem unique to the other two is that is contains foreign dialect,...
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